ABSTRACT
In early 1932, it was discovered that Maconchy had contracted tuberculosis, the disease which had killed her father, Gerald Maconchy, ten years earlier. Rather than relocate to Switzerland, she moved first to the fresh air of Brighton and then to a house (‘Chart Corner’) near Sevenoaks in Kent. Cut off from London’s musical life, correspondence with friends and the wireless both became increasingly important. Meanwhile, Williams found employment teaching part-time at Southlands Training College in south London, as well as copying parts for Oxford University Press, the Music Department of which was under the direction of Hubert Foss.
